Eight outcomes you can expect from GrazingforProfit®.

1. Financial acumen: Increase profitability, stay in control, and make informed decisions by focusing on the 3 secrets of profit, financial analysis, understanding key financial reports, optimising cash-flow, and eliminating inefficiencies.
2. Maximised grazing: Utilise the data-driven tools of time-controlled grazing, matching stocking rates to carrying capacity, feed budgeting, calculating graze and rest periods, and using grazing charts as a powerful management tool.
3. Livestock performance: Explore effective strategies to enhance reproductive health, including genetics, fertility optimisation, and planning around key dates, as well as enhancing ruminant nutrition and supplementation programs.
4. Ecological health: Create thriving landscapes by working with nature’s ecological systems, understanding plant succession, introducing biodiversity, encouraging biological activity, enhancing soil structure, and increasing carbon levels.
5. Drought resilience: Develop strategies to prepare for, manage through, and recover from drought, as well as embracing management practices that improve ground cover and water retention rates.
6. Focused mindset: Chart a clear path for your business and personal aspirations, setting both short and long-term goals, and clarifying your overall vision to help drive business forward.
7. Strategic insights: Master the balance of working ON vs. IN the business, conduct effective management meetings, navigate family succession, tackle resistance to change, and ensure everyone is on the same page.
8. Elevated potential: Build personal and professional skills, including time management, communication and decision-making, all while growing your networks and joining a passionate and dedicated community.

Book early to avoid the waiting list

Early Bird: $4,979 (available until 5th December 2024)

Standard: $5,499

More info: https://events.rcsaustralia.com.au/en/5g5Ua2H7/g/SJKCmeaf65/grazingforprofit-yeppoon-qld-4a1pOnYEN7/overview

Carbon EDGE is a new training program for the red meat industry. Understand the opportunities for emissions reduction and carbon storage in your livestock grazing business. Use your own information to develop
an action plan for your business. Attending this workshop will help you learn:
• key terminology and concepts relating to greenhouse gases (GHG) within the red meat industry
• in-depth information on the practices to reduce and sequester GHG within a livestock grazing business
• weighing up opportunities and risks associated with generating carbon credits and how they can be used to benefit livestock businesses
• understanding carbon neutrality and how it aligns to your business goals
• developing a carbon action plan that incorporates practical, achievable strategies to meet your objectives.

Workshop inclusions
• guidance of expert deliverers
• individualised information and small group learning
• practical activities
• case studies, data and examples for your region
• a participant manual, templates and other handy resources to take home.

Who is the Carbon EDGE program for?
The program is for red meat producers who are looking to build on their understanding of carbon. The program aims to take participants from understanding to action planning. It is also suitable for advisors and other service providers. Pre-workshop preparation The design of the Carbon EDGE workshops recognises that everyone will be at a different starting point when it comes to carbon. However, it is highly recommended that participants complete pre-work before attending to get the best out of the program. This includes the eLearning modules available on MLA’s Toolbox and a carbon account. Your workshop deliverer will be in touch to guide you through this process.

More info:

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Celebrate the innovation and imagination of Central Queensland’s agriculture industry at the CQ AgTech Showcase Tour. Starting in Emerald, travelling through the Beef Capital and Fitzroy Food Bowl of Rockhampton and ending on the Capricorn Coast, you’ll learn about new technology, water infrastructure, smart farming, Indigenous food, new agricultural ventures, aquaculture, agribusiness investment and more.

This tour is a showcase of farming across Central Queensland and a chance to connect with international delegates, researchers, start-up founders, primary producers, investors, industry and governments.

Proudly sponsored by Advance Rockhampton and delivered in collaboration with Agristart, CQUniversity, Central Highlands Development Corporation, Central Highlands Regional Resource Use Planning, Livingstone Shire Council, Pine Tree Projects and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.

Tickets are $599+GST per person which includes all meals, accommodation, daily transport and event activities. (Attendees will need to arrange their own transport to and from the start and finish locations).

When

Central Queensland Roadtrip – From Emerald to Rockhampton

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for cattle required for skeletal growth, muscle development, metabolism, and milk production. A deficiency increases the mortality rate in cows, reduces growth rates, and reduces calf weaning weights. Knowing if your country is deficient or not, and whether you need to supplement is vital in managing northern Queensland properties.

A map of available phosphorus (bicarbonate extractable) across the state of Queensland has recently been updated to include the Cape York, Northern Gulf and Southern Gulf catchments, and to be more spatially accurate.

In this BeefConnect webinar, join Jim Fletcher (Senior Beef Extension Officer, DPI), Stephen Leo (Senior Scientist, DETSI) and Grant Stone (Principal Scientist, DETSI) as they discuss:

• Selecting sites and soil sampling
• Spatial modelling and map production process
• Improvements made on the new map
• Overview of the variability in phosphorous across land types in the sampled catchments
• How to get a FORAGE Indicative Soil Phosphorous report for your property.

Tuesday: https://events.humanitix.com/landcare-ruminati-feb-onboarding-webinar

Thursday: https://events.humanitix.com/landcare-ruminati-march-onboarding-webinar

We are encouraging everyone to get involved in Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 2nd March 2025 and help us make this the BIGGEST ever, as we celebrate 35 years of improving and conserving our environment, one piece of litter at a time!

It’s hard to believe that what was started thirty-five years ago, by Ian Kiernan, AO, an “average Australian” who had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard has now become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event, held annually on the first Sunday in March.

Over 22 million Aussies have stepped up over the years, pulled on their gloves and donating their time to improve the environment. Registration for Clean Up Australia Day is free for communities and schools (businesses pay a small fee) and this ensures that not only are you covered by our public liability insurance, but you’ll receive a free Clean Up kit with all the materials required to host a safe and successful event.

more info: https://www.cleanup.org.au/cleanupaustraliaday